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The SEC should go forward with a rule requiring corporations to publicly disclose their campaign contributions.

[…] constitutional convention. Let’s be honest. There is no good reason not to mandate full disclosure of corporate political contributions, which are cloaked in secrecy when made through nonprofit organizations. Reasonable people can disagree about whether corporations should be allowed to engage in such spending at all. No one reasonably can disagree that corporations’ shareholders, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 14, 2013
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SacBee calls for more transparency in compensation agreements with public employee unions
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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Real agenda cloaked in government buzzwords and bafflegab
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 19, 2011
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Public Citizen and CFAC seek to overturn court orders shuttering wikileaks.org

[…] name registrar. The organizations also argue that, even if the court had jurisdiction, both court orders are invalid under the First Amendment. Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. CFAC is a free speech and open-government advocacy group with offices in San Rafael, CA. Here's the Public Citizen/CFAC […]
- Free Expression
June 3, 2009
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Proposition

[…] wouldn't betray a confidence, especially a presidential confidence. But these are, as we know, "challenging" times, not least for the California First Amendment Coalition ("CFAC"), a cash-strapped nonprofit working overtime to defend freedom of speech and the public's right to know about its government. Besides, President Obama is a big proponent of open government, […]

June 3, 2009
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Foreign media at Olympics urged to press home governments to demand China lift internet censorship

[…] found on this page of wikipedia--which, not suprisingly, is itself censored: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China A useful service for determining whether a particular website is being blocked is websitepulse.com: http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html The California First Amendment Coalition is a nonprofit advocacy organization, based in San Rafael, CA, that advocates for free speech rights and more open, accountable government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Op-ed: California Governor Should Commit to Transparency in Clemency Process

[…] our courts: "People in an open society do not demand infallibility from their institutions, but it is difficult for them to accept what they are prohibited from observing." David Snyder is the executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, a California nonprofit dedicated to advancing free speech, open government and public participation in civic affairs.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 7, 2021
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On Access: The First Amendment Crisis You Probably Haven’t Heard About

[…] The financial decline of the legacy media has been exhaustively documented — its causes, effects and larger social import — and the rise of independent, startup and nonprofit media over the same period has been similarly chronicled. But one aspect of this evolution has gone largely overlooked — one with huge ramifications not just […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
January 13, 2020
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Obama acts on FAC petition against China’s “Great Firewall”

[…] the blocking of websites of US-based businesses seeking to tap the vast Chinese consumer market. The announcement, which grows out of an initiative of a free speech nonprofit group, the First Amendment Coalition (FAC), is a significant step in investigating and challenging internet censorship as a violation of free trade rules. Such a challenge […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 20, 2011
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Now Hiring: FAC Senior Staff Attorney / Legal Director

October 14, 2021